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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Celebrate!

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-12-12

I probably didn't realise that it wasn't 'real' flutes on SFF either.  ItCotCK was maybe the first place that I ever saw the word 'Mellotron' with any knowledge, although I had absolutely no idea what it was nor what it looked like.  I wasn't even very sure what the sound eas that it produced, but I was well aware of that other-worldy sound to the album, so as a process of subtraction I assumed this was what the Mellotron was.

I never actually got to see one until I saw a copy of the old (free) magazine 'Making Music' which had an article on one.  The same week I saw an ad in Melody Maker for one, advertising 'MELATRON MINT: £100 ono'.  Changed days.


On 12 December 2013 01:37, <fdoddy@aol.com> wrote:
 

Strawberry Fields was first, but I probably didn't realize it. ITCOTCK was the album that took me for a ride, as far as figuring out what a tron was.

There was this time with my mom, I was probably 14 years old.  We were in Allentown PA for some reason and I wanted to walk by Crest Music Center to see if it was open.  It was not. I could see in the back of the store an M400 sitting there, and I just longed to play it.  I still have that vivid memory.  The M400 felt so exotic to me. I was so into British RnR and the tron felt like England to me.


fritz




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:22 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Celebrate!

 
First was probably 'Strawberry Fields', like an awful lot of people.


On 11 December 2013 17:43, <tron400@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
First time was on Days of Future Past...the purple double-domes had just kicked in.

Bernie



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Mike Dickson
Edinburgh




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Mike Dickson
Edinburgh